COMMERCE
1335
Commerce.
Imports and exports for five years : —
Year
Merchandise
Specie
Imports
Exports { £E
Imports
£E
Exports
£E
£E
1908
25.100,397
21,315,673
4,205,083
4,671,206
1909
22,230,499
26,076,239
7,010,195
6,457,588
1910
23,552,826
28,944,461
12,964,245
7,046,151
1911
27,227,118
28,598,991
7,242,496
7,132,059
1912
25,907,759
34,574,321
11,546,439
7,476,2S2
Commerce by principal countries :-
Great Britain British Colonies
Mediterranean British Colonies
Extreme East Germany . United States Austria-Hungar; Belgium
China & Extreme France Greece Italy . Morocco Persia Russia Turkey
in
the nthe
East
Imports from
Exports to
1911
£B
8,557,296
257,110
1,095,051 1,500,745
321,960 1,988,808
959,863
607,795 2,780,301
489,999
1,461,600
54,543
50,526
850,811 2,808,864
1912
1911
£B 7,990,658
253,382
1,314,361 1,421,180
403,525 1,679,831 1,102,711
391,697 2,411,425
548,196
1,242,729
22,654
56,953
764,515 2,759,883
£E 13,958,058
10,346
111,744
3,117,564
2,071,161
1,443,384
56,770
398,019
2,311,869
23,288
814,064
681
5,429
1,789,236
548,737
1912
£E
16,022,818
13,630
122,704
3,885,937
4,120,895
1,431,167
96,934
640,330
2,706,975
30,195
948,889
843
9,335
2,056,302
627,556
Value of the l eading exports and imports during three years : —
I Exports
Merchandise
Animals & animal food products
Skins and leather goods .
Other animal pro- ducts .
Cereals, vegetables
Provisions & drugs
Spirits, oils, (fee. .
Rags, paper, books
Wood & coal, cane work, (fee. .
Stone, lime, glass.
Colouring materials
Chemical products
Textiles,J
Metals and manuf.
Sundries
Tobacco^
Total .
Imports
1910
1911
1912
£E 1,123,150
£E 1,078,861
393,549 , 433,780
68,937 2,739,935
945,335 1,161,130
389,625
2,834,247
617,562
256,020
976,045
6,625,959
2,384,398
1,881,863
1,155,071
76,343
3,238,264
1.303.631
1,177,516
418,409
2,973,207 690,401 277,895 1,180,660 8,209,123 2,977,354 2,001,021 1,190,653
£E 1,105,526
1910
£E 161,.352
1911
1912
388,900 237,552
73,088
3,066,409
1,231,047
1,272,320
433,549
3,061,815 640,249 280,675 1,372,181 6,907,973 2,921,896 1,937,608 1,214,523
23,552,826 i 27,227,118 25,907,759
56,594
3,222,597
194,707
28,273
24,296
14,197
2,577
27,596
43,422
24,375,825
54,332
122,013
379,128
28,944,461
£E
147,282
178,773
63,060
4,133,400
251,236
25,090
19,041
15,822
2,255
25,180
47,240
23,103,095
75,159
105,235
407,123
28,598,991
£E 217,587
182,928
66,485
5,346,837
254,847
36,359
23,308
19,325
2,731
23,510
88,431
27,696,007
98,041
95,259
422,666
34,574,321
1 The cotton tissues imported amounted in 1910. to £E3,403,518 ; in 1911, to £E4,125,05( ; in 1912,to£E3,500,212. The quantity of raw cotton exported was, in 1910, 6,009,406 cantars, valued at £E24,241,712 ; in 1911, 6,638,210 cantars, valued at £E22,988,211 ' '- 8,306,948 cantars, valued at jeE27,529,277. 2 Cigarettes.
in 1912,
